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Oct 11, 2019 · Lena Herzog’s mixture of enigmatic film and immersive sound evokes a global crisis of linguistic disappearance. Share full article. +. Lena Herzog in a preserved cedar grove in Los Angeles....
All mixes mimic a sound environment the way human ears hear it live, unrecorded. They are perceived as a genuine 360° sound, registered by the mind as distinctly “present,” “real” and “alive.”. LAST WHISPERS overview of the formats and of the project’s history.
May 26, 2022 · Speech by Lena Herzog during the Launch of the World Atlas of Languages 41st Plenary Session of UNESCO General Conference Paris, France. November 18, 2021. WATCH >
Feb 22, 2019 · Hoping to call awareness to the tragedy of our world’s quietly diminishing identity, multimedia artist Lena Herzog has composed Last Whispers (2016). The forty-five-minute immersive oratorio with a seven-minute virtual-reality component catalogs a melancholic sampling of the voices behind endangered and extinct languages.
Jun 6, 2019 · A human language dies every two weeks! Today, a majority of the world’s population speaks only 30 of the 7,000 languages remaining on earth. It is estimated that at least half of the currently spoken languages will have died by the end of this century; the majority belonging to indigenous peoples.&
Lena Herzog presents slides from her recent work Lost Souls and previews her latest work Light Matter in a conversation with Pulitzer Prize winner David Turnley. Herzog’s portfolios have appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, and Harper’s among other publications.
May 5, 2024 · Any War Any Enemy presents the new work of multidisciplinary conceptual artist Lena Herzog. Curated by Silvia Burini and Giuseppe Barbieri on the occasion of the 60th Venice Art Biennale, the exhibition forms an ideal "diptych" with Last Whispers: Immersive Oratorio for Vanishing Voices, Collapsing Universes and, a Falling Tree , created in ...
